Hagerstown Herald Rates and Staff Box
The Hagerstown paper lists editors J Garvin Hager and EL Phillips general manager with a local post office listing. Subscription rates shown: in advance single copy four cents. by carrier per wear eighteen. mail up to 4th zone seventy three cents. six months four dollars twenty five. yearly eight dollars eighty? cents. Sth and Sth zones ten dollars. foreign mail one dollar fifty per month. Member Associated Press with exclusive rights to AP dispatches and local news.
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Hagerstown
J. Garvin Hager
EL. Phillips
Associated Press
Rhin
Recapture of Guam Boosts American War Momentum
Jubilant Americans hail Guam as American property regained after four decades under Japs. Guam Saipan offer bases for B29 operations and Pacific advance. The Marianas provide fleet anchorage, repair facilities and a springboard toward Formosa the Philippines or China coast with daily bombing potential.
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Guam
Saipan
Japan
America
Formosa
Philippines
China
Marianas
Pacific
Life As Usual After Victory Hopes Rest On War Finish
Experts foresee an uphill path to the traditional American lifestyle after victory over Germany and possibly Japan. Military gasoline demand, scarce steak, and routine travel will persist until the war ends. Postwar production of durable goods is expected to resume with a world market, but prices may stay well above 1942 highs.
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Germany
Japan
Hitler
Utopia
Nro
Steans
Opera Headwinds Ebb as Metropolitan Opera Sees Deficit Drop
The Metropolitan Opera Association, long financed as private enterprise with persistent deficits, reports Sloan announcing a deficit reduced to 1100000 from 1949-48 levels. He forecasts a move into the black next season thanks to new state and municipal aid rather than cuts or higher patronage.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera Association
George A. Sloan
Sloan
Met Opera Finances Improve Despite Tax Cut and Bonds
The Metropolitan Opera's taxes drop after the NYC Tax Commission cut the building assessment to four million dollars retroactive for three years, saving about one hundred fifteen thousand dollars yearly. Bond holders returned eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars in bonds, while the Met's principal fund rose to one million two hundred ninety one thousand from forty two thousand gifts totaling three hundred sixty one thousand. The opera, though financially stronger, remains a premier but fluctuating artistic institution with broad broadcast reach and enduring prestige.
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Metropolitan Opera House
New York City Tax Commission
Opera
Metropolitan Opera Fund
Metropolitan
United States
Canada
Venezuela Oil Outlook Shapes Rationing Plan Through Spring
Oil executives say rationing will likely continue on current terms until spring unless Hitler is defeated. US industry taps reserve supplies as domestic output struggles to meet war and civilian demand. Venezuela remains a key source, producing about 650000 barrels daily with new capacity to exceed 1 million. Imports from Venezuela rise from 106000 to 160000 barrels daily next year. US production grows about 450000 barrels daily, up 25 percent from a decade ago.
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Hitler
United States
Venezuela
Just Folks SOLDIERS DESIRE
Poem reflects soldiers longing for peaceful life rather than medals. They yearn for memories of home, family welcomes, church, social gatherings, and ordinary pleasures weathering war. If peace returned, they would choose steady labor in a peaceful, useful trade.
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Somme
Williamsport council weighs waterworks franchise request
Four years ago today the Williamsport town council considered granting a waterworks franchise to unnamed parties. Car inspector James Moore of Winter Street noted two cornstalks over seven feet tall in his yard. A well dressed woman stole a $150 diamond from Koh-i Noor’s by swapping an imitation stone.
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Williamsport
James Moore
Winter Street
Kohior
Thieves rob freight station. coffee and cheese stolen
Two years ago a freight station in Smithsburg was robbed by hungry thieves who escaped with five pounds of fine coffee and fifteen pounds of cheese. Cordell Hull, then chairman of the DNC, acknowledged the Potomac Club’s endorsement of Davis and Bryan. The Lutheran Church missPennsylvania Virginia Maryland West Virginia held its 38th annual session at Pen Mar Park with about eighteen thousand nine hundred attendees.
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Smithsburg
Cordell Hull
Democratic National Committee
Potomac Club
Davis
Bryan
Lutheran Church of
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Pen- Mar Park
Ordnance in Normandy A vital but little-heard force
In Normandy the Ordnance department repairs vehicles and weapons and supplies munitions, with 6-7 percent of troops. It handles 25,004 catalog items and operates large repair networks across beachhead units, from 30-ton tanks to small pistols, keeping equipment moving as the war advances.
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Normandy—I
Ordnance Department
Ordnance
Normandy
Heachhead
Ordnarice
Newly Son
France
Peterson's Ointment Advertises Quick Relief for Itching
An old advertisement asserts Peterson's Ointment provides fast relief from itching pimples eczema and skin irritations. It claims benefits for angry red blotches and irritated feet with a money back guarantee if one application fails to delight.
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Peterson
Hogs Prefer Cooked Pinto Beans Over Raw Stuff
Colorado State College experiment station finds hogs will not eat raw pinto beans but eagerly devour them when cooked. Researchers tested culled and split beans though human consumption would discard them as unfit.
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Tort Collins
Cole
Colorado State College
Victory Gardens Damaged By Fire
Fire swept through Victory Gardens from Salem avenue to Mangansville road destroying about 14 acres of gardens. Fire broke out around 1 pm under July heat with water shortages hindering suppression. A second blaze on Hardscrabble road west of Hagerstown destroyed a hose while intense heat and drought worsened conditions. Pre war Vitebsk population mentioned as context.
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Victory Gardens
Salem Avenue
Mangansville Road
Hagerstown
Roosevelt prospects clouded by New York doubts at convention
Washington observers weigh Roosevelt chances in November as New York Mayor La Guardia and Tammany head Ed Loughlin privately doubt a Roosevelt win in New York State. Speakers like Sam Rayburn warn midwar shifts could end party unity if leadership changes occur.
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Fodor
Washington
Roosevelt
New York
la Guardia
Fiorello
New York State
Tammany Hall
Ed Loughlin
Oil talks then peace machinery debated by two leaders
The visit to discuss post war petrol arrangements between the United States and Great Britain stresses oil as vital to win the war. Richard Law will stay on to discuss peace machinery while Word Beaverbrook joins, with gossip that Churchill fears Law is too liberal and sends Beaverbrook to curb influence.
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Richard Law
Bonar Law
U.S
State Department
Great Britain
Russia
United States
Beaverbrook
Churchill
Law
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Alexander Bidg
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House of Shoes
Harry M. Friedman
Harry’s Loan Office
Jonathan
Bulletin
War Manpower Commission
Fairchild Aircraft Division
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